Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

• The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
• But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
• The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
• We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
• Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
• The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
• The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
• Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
• When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.